Taped Beating of Rodney King
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Is the beating of King an aberration? If I, a black man, and some black friends were not stopped, roughed up, handcuffed and ankle-cuffed and detained for two hours while walking back to my car after a late show in Westwood, then I, too, would have thought the beating was an isolated incident. Chief Gates should resign.
DARREN HAYLOCK
Van Nuys
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